noun, masculine/stʁas/
paste, rhinestone (lead crystal used as gemstone)
“Noyée sous les flots de musiques electriques / De rock'n'roll tu recherches un rôle / Tu recherches les studios, et les traces de Monroe / Les strass et le stress / Dieux et déesses de Los Angeles” — Drowned beneath the waves of electric music / of Rock'n'Roll, you're looking for a role / You look for the studios and the traces of Monroe / The rhinestones and the stress / Gods and goddesses of Los Angeles
After its inventor, the 18th-century Alsatian jeweler Georg Friedrich Strass.